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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,837 published reviews in this topic

El Detector / Univision NoticiasWar & conflict

“Polonia atacó primero a Bielorrusia anticipándose a la amenaza rusa”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a Facebook video published on July 24, 2023, which said Poland had already attacked Belarus to get ahead of a Russian threat. The review found the video’s own narration did not report a completed attack: it spoke instead of Poland supposedly preparing or planning an operation. The review describes the title as clickbait because the narration contradicted its implication that an attack had happened. (S1: “El título de un video publicado el 24 de julio de 2023 en Facebook asegura falsamente que ‘Polonia atacó primero a Bielorrusia anticipándose a la amenaza rusa’”; “el mismo narrador echa por tierra el título con comentarios como estos: ‘Varsovia se estaría preparando para realizar un ataque a Bielorrusia’”; “sólo menciona que Polonia ‘estaría preparando’ o ‘planeando’ un ataque contra Bielorrusia, pero no que el mismo ya hubiera ocurrido.”) The review also reports that its Google News searches in English and Spanish found no reporting of a Polish attack on Belarus. It contrasts the claim with events it says were reported in the days before the video: Poland sent more troops to its border after Wagner members appeared on the Belarusian side, and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Warsaw that aggression against Belarus would be treated as an attack on Russia. At a July 23 meeting, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Wagner members had wanted to move toward Poland and that he had stopped them. These details describe heightened tension and threats, not a completed Polish attack. (S1: “no encontramos información sobre ningún ataque de Polonia a Bielorrusia”; “Polonia decidió enviar más tropas a su frontera con Bielorrusia ante la presencia de miembros del grupo Wagner del lado bielorruso”; “en una reunión el 23 de julio de 2023”; “este último dijo que los wagneristas querían avanzar hacia Polonia y él les había detenido.”) On the evidence described, the headline’s assertion of an actual Polish attack was unsupported and contradicted by the video’s own wording. The review concluded that tension and warnings existed, but no real aggression had occurred by the time of its verification. (S1: “hasta la fecha de publicación de esta verificación no se ha producido ningún ataque”; “En los últimos días ha habido un aumento de la tensión en la frontera común, así como amenazas y advertencias de ambos lados, pero no una agresión real.”)

YouturnWar & conflict

மணிப்பூர் என்பது எப்போதும் அமைதியை தன் பக்கத்தில் வைத்திருக்காத ஒரு மாநிலம். 2014-க்கு முன்பு நாம் பார்த்தோம் என்றால் மணிப்பூரில் எத்தனை சாவுகள் என்பது நமக்கு தெரியும். Military Fights, கொலை எல்லாவற்றையுமே பார்த்திருக்கோம். குறிப்பாக 2014-க்கு பின்பு தான் மணிப்பூர் அமைதியை நோக்கி சென்று கொண்டிருக்கிறது. – தமிழ்நாடு பாஜக தலைவர் அண்ணாமலை.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Belarusian Investigative CenterWar & conflict

Поставляя Украине кассетные боеприпасы, США нарушает международное право

Publisher’s rating: В действительности сказанное Тарасовой — искажение. Во-первых, боеприпасов поставят не на 800 млн долларов — это сумма всего пакета помощи, в который войдут боеприпасы для ПВО, бронетехника и противотанковое вооружение. Кассетные боеприпасы — лишь часть этой помощи. Во-вторых, США не подписали Конвенцию по кассетным боеприпасам, которая запрещает их накапливание, передачу и использование. Документ также не подписали Россия, Украина и Беларусь —их нет в списке стран-участниц конвенции.

Abrar BhatWar & conflict

Video of terrorist caught in Srinagar, J&K

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim attached the video of police pursuing and kicking a biker to the capture of a terrorist in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. NewsMeter describes the footage and the social-media caption, which praised the officer and labelled the biker a terrorist. Its investigation concluded that the video did not show an arrest in Srinagar, but an older incident in Brazil. NewsMeter says it first searched for recent reports about a militant or terrorist arrest in Srinagar and found none. It then extracted keyframes from the viral video and ran reverse-image searches. Those searches led investigators to an earlier appearance of the same footage on a Spanish-language website and to a Daily Motion upload, both predating the viral claim. The review also found a report dated August 2, 2021, from obemdito.com that used the same video and identified the scene as a teenager falling from his motorcycle in downtown Pérola, Brazil, after colliding with a police car. The account says police restrained him when he tried to flee. This matching older footage, and its Brazilian setting, contradict the claim that the video showed a terrorist caught in Srinagar.